Leadership in Organizations, Eight Edition

Chapter 3 Effective Leadership Behavior

Learning Objectives

After studying this chapter, you should be able to:

• Understand why so many different behavior categories have been proposed.

• Understand what research methods have been used to study leadership behavior.

• Understand how leader behavior can be described with either broad or specific categories.

• Understand why task and relations behaviors are important for leadership effectiveness.

• Understand why change-oriented behaviors are important for effective leadership.

• Understand how specific types of task and relations behavior can be used effectively.

The preceding chapter reviewed descriptive research that was designed to identify typical activity patterns of managers, and the ...